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Chennai lockdown news: Today's updates

19 hours ago

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As the Central and state governments allow phase-wise relaxation in curbs to get the life up and running again following over two months of lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19, we bring you the latest updates from your city...

Coronavirus: TN targets high-risk population

22 hours ago

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Tamil Nadu’s public health authorities have begun to reach out to people with comorbidities as part of the fight against Covid-19 as fresh cases touched 1,091 on Tuesday, taking the state tally to 24,586. The toll rose to 197 with 13 more deaths reported...

32-year-old woman dies after lightning strike

22 hours ago

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A woman farmer died after she was struck by lightning at Thiroor near Tiruvallur on Monday evening.Police said the woman met with the fate when she was returning home from work...

Covid test must for fliers from Maha, Guj, Delhi

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Passengers who arrive by flights from Maharashtra, Gujarat and Delhi will be tested for Covid-19 and business travellers from other states who plans to return in 48 hours will be exempted from quarantine, says a new protocol issued by the state government for domestic passengers. Already, the state government has exempted passengers who travel within the state from quarantine...

TN lockdown: Some dos, several don’ts

2 days ago

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Some lockdown relaxations have been allowed even in Chennai, which remains the hotspot in the state, accounting for nearly 70% of the fresh cases every day. The easing will be in two stages, one from June 1 and the next from June 8...

Three die as MUV rams car near Salem

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TN seeks three more special intra-state trains

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Coronavirus: TN breaches 25,000 case mark

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Lockdown unlocks biz opportunity for couple

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Sastra Univ to hold end semester exams online

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Mismatch in flight schedules causes hassle

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Covid-19: 23 streets connecting KK Salai sealed

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TN's Covid tally zooms past 23k; death toll 184

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Farmer hacks wife to death in TN’s Thanjavur

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Madurai man ends life after uncle kills self

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Cabs, auto services to resume in Chennai today

2 days ago

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After a gap of two months, autorickshaws and cabs will start plying legally in the city from Monday, but fares could be higher than usual due to driver shortage...

1,149 more test +ve for Covid in TN, toll 173

3 days ago

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As many as 1149 people tested positive for Covid-19 even as Tamil Nadu government announced relaxation in lockdown on Sunday. This is by far the highest one-day rise. Thirteen people died. Case tally in the state now stands at 22,333 and the death toll rises to 173...

More NRIs seek seats in Chennai schools

3 days ago

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After facing job loss and an uncertain future on foreign soil, many non-resident Indians (NRIs) are looking to relocate to the city and start fresh once the Covid crisis fades. Young parents among the lot are desperately knocking the doors of schools here to get their kids enrolled for the coming academic year...

Hospitals warned against inflating patient bills

3 days ago

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The state health department will issue guidelines to cap cost of Covid-19 tests and in-hospital treatment depending upon the kind of facilities and hospitals, health minister C Vijayabaskar said on Saturday. The government has also asked a team of experts if it can incentivise people lodged in government facilities though they tested negative for the viral infection...

'Grasshoppers seen in Tamil Nadu, not locusts'

3 days ago

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The agriculture department and Krishi Vigyan Kendra have clarified that the insects spotted in Neralagiri village in Krishnagiri as well as two villages in Kanyakumari district were grasshoppers and not the locusts ravaging crops in some northern states...

Coimbatore: 6 more air passengers test positive

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Locusts? No, grasshoppers scare farmers in TN

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J Deepa, Deepak direct legal heirs of Jaya: HC

4 days ago

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Two days after declaring former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s niece J Deepa and nephew J Deepak Class II legal heirs for all her properties, the Madras high court fortified their legal status further by declaring them direct legal heirs...

What lockdown? Autos operate freely in Chennai

4 days ago

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The prohibitory orders may be in place during the lockdown that is likely to be extended beyond May 31, but autorickshaws and share autorickshaws operate freely in the city and its suburbs. As many as 180 temporary check points have been set up across the city, apart from the regular check-posts, to monitor violators, but few autorickshaws, whose owners charge as they please, have been caught...

Huge grasshopper triggers locust scare in Ooty

4 days ago

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A team of entomologists from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) on Friday ruled out the presence of locusts in the hill town...

TN couple who returned from Bengaluru booked

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TN: Vitamin C, zinc tablets distributed to cops

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TN: 4 booked for forcing minor into marriage

5 days ago

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The M Chatrapatti police booked four people including the parents of a minor girl for forcibly conducting her marriage. Although the marriage took place in March, it came to the knowledge of officials only on Wednesday...

TN: GH matron dies, dean denies Covid infection

5 days ago

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A 58-year-old matron of the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital here who was under treatment in one of its Covid-19 blocks died on Wednesday, but the dean said she did not have the viral infection...

Working to keep Covid fatalities down, says govt

5 days ago

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Tamil Nadu recorded 12 deaths on Thursday, its highest single-day Covid-19 toll, and the number of fresh cases continued to rise with 827 reported — 117 of them migrants coming into the state by air and rail — taking the tally to 19,372. Chennai accounted for 599 of the fresh cases and its three neighbouring districts of Kancheepuram, Chengalpet and Tiruvallur reported 102. The state’s death toll was 145...

Bagdogra among 47 flights from Chennai airport

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Electricity Amendment Bill: Stalin to CMs

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Officials test +ve, SR HQ shut down for 2 days

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Famous mechanic jumps to death off Marina

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'TN must test 18k a day to flatten the curve'

6 days ago

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At least 10,000 people in Chennai and another 8,000 across Tamil Nadu must be tested every day for Covid-19 to flatten the epidemic curve, according to epidemiologists. But in the past one week, on an average 11,300 people were tested daily...

TN: Five die in Krishnagiri, Erode accidents

7 days ago

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Five people, including a couple, died in different road accidents in Krishnagiri and Erode districts of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday...

Lorry driver held for inciting communal violence

7 days ago

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A 21-year-old lorry driver in Tiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu was arrested on Tuesday night on charges of hate speech and attempting to incite communal violence by posting videos on Tiktok. He was remanded at Tiruvannamalai sub-jail on Wednesday morning...

TN CM, leaders condole death of Arumugan

7 days ago

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Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami joined leaders of political parties in the state to condole the death of Ceylon Workers' Congress leader and Sri Lanka cabinet minister Arumugan Thondaman, who died on Tuesday...

HC declares Jayalalithaa’s kin as legal heirs

7 days ago

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Dealing a body blow to Tamil Nadu government’s bid to take over former chief minister Jayalalithaa’s Poes Garden residence, Madras high court has said only a part of the 10-ground property could be converted into a memorial if needed...

Tamils returning from Dharavi feel unwelcome

7 days ago

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Three decades ago, 52-year-old Jeyakumar, a native of Panagudi village in Tirunelveli, made Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum in the heart of Mumbai, his home. But now Covid-19 is driving away hundreds of Tamils like him back to their roots in Tamil Nadu. And in the midst of the pandemic, many of them are not welcomed back home...

300 Tamils stranded in UK seek TN govt's help

8 days ago

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Bullock cart sand mining resumes in Trichy

8 days ago

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NRIs eye ready-to-occupy houses in Chennai

8 days ago

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The coronavirus outbreak which has triggered layoffs overseas has prompted non-resident Indians (NRIs) to buy ready-to-occupy houses back home. During the lockdown, city-based developers and real estate agents have been receiving inquiries from NRIs, largely in the Middle-East, over housing projects in and around Chennai...

Chennai to get 100 more mobile fever clinics

8 days ago

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As the state continues to see large number of positive cases, the government has decided to deploy 100 more mobile fever clinics in Chennai to identify symptomatic people with severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) and influenzalike illness (ILI). Greater Chennai Corporation has been told to work out the logistics for the same with the health department. This comes ahead of chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami’s scheduled meeting with health experts on Tuesday to discuss the control measures and an exit plan for the lockdown...

Biker clings on to car for a km in Chennai

8 days ago

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A speeding car with a broken windshield and a bleeding man on its top stunned people on Vanagaram-Ambattur Road on Sunday night...

Tamil Nadu’s Covid-19 tally reaches 17,082

9 days ago

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Chennai airport to handle 41 flights on Tuesday

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Eid charity begins online for many in Trichy

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Chennai: Passengers may struggle sans cabs

9 days ago

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The state government may have allowed domestic flight services at the city airport but passengers will struggle to reach the airport on time as autorickshaws, cabs and public transport are not available...

TN: Salons open, but few follow govt orders

9 days ago

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It was nothing short of a reunion of long lost friends on Sunday when the regular customers of salons met their trusted barbers...

TN: Man dies at Madurai isolation camp

10 days ago

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A 68-year-old man, who returned from Gujarat, died after complaining of chest pain in an isolation camp at Chinna Udaippu in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu on Sunday morning...

DMK MP R S Bharathi arrested, gets bail in hours

10 days ago

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DMK organisational secretary and Rajya Sabha member R S Bharathi was let off on interim bail till June 1 by the principal sessions court, hours after city police arrested him on Saturday...

Jaya's house: Niece seeks AIADMK cadres' help

10 days ago

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J Jayalalithaa's niece Deepa Jayakumar has opposed the Tamil Nadu government's ordinance to take over the late chief minister's residence 'Veda Nilayam' at Poes Garden in Chennai and sought the support of AIADMK cadres to stop the move...

Dr Simon Hercules' burial: HC grants bail to 12

11 days ago

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Chennai airport set to handle 100 flights a day

11 days ago

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The city airport is set to handle around 100 flights per day, including around 50 arrivals, as per the schedule released by airlines prior to resuming services on May 25...

17 Stanley Hosp doctors test +ve in Chennai

11 days ago

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Seventeen doctors from Stanley Medical College and Hospital are suspected to have tested positive for Covid-19, multiple sources from the hospital told TOI. A state government official, however, said the information was “false”...

Chennai’s poor hit hardest by coronavirus

11 days ago

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More than three of five people who tested positive for Covid-19 in the state aren’t part of any cluster. The directorate of public health has clubbed more than 9,000 people into the group of “non-Tablighi and contacts” – most of them living in low socio-economic conditions in Chennai and neighbouring districts...

TN: Prisoner dies of cardiac arrest in Salem

12 days ago

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Social distancing: Trichy teashop penalised

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TN: 3 fishermen injured as boat capsizes in sea

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60 Tasmac liquor shops near Chennai from on Sat

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Chennai: Number of containment zones comes down

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TN residents seek self-care tips to boost immunity

12 days ago

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With the surge in Covid-19 cases in the state, Indian medicine practitioners in Tamil Nadu are being inundated with calls from anxious people asking for self-care measures to boost immunity against the infection as they ready to head out of their homes and resume normal life...

Lockdown: Private school in Tamil Nadu sealed

13 days ago

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Man shares child pornographic material; held

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TN: RTOs start to issue DLs, learner licences

13 days ago

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Regional transport offices (RTOs) across Tamil Nadu on Monday began issuing driving licences, learner licences (LLRs) and the vehicle registration certification (RC)...

Pvt omni buses ferry 15k guest workers out of TN

13 days ago

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Private omni buses and vans have helped in ferrying more than 15,000 guest workers out of Tamil Nadu till date. This was almost one-fourth of what trains have ferried in the same period...

Fraud: BJP loyalist, wife held in Puducherry

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Couple, son die in Erode road accident

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Tirupur police seize 15kg of marijuana; 4 held

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Kalinga Centre to conduct snake rescue programme

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TN: Rs 2 k cr optical fibre tender withdrawn

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'Fresh Covid cases cross 1k-mark for 3rd day'

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Covid-19: Aadhaar must for a haircut in TN

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TN sees over 1,000 Covid-19 cases for 2nd day

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Two teenagers drown in river near TN’s Cumbum

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Trichy: Buses see fewer passengers on day one

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Man steals bike to get home, couriers it back

2 days ago

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A 30-year-old man stranded due to the lockdown, in desperation, stole a motorcycle to get home to Thanjavur. But when Prasanth reached his Mannargudi home, he was told that the bike's owner had sniffed him out. So to avoid any trouble, Prashanth sent the vehicle back via courier...

Trichy corpn staff test positive for Covid-19

3 days ago

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A bill collector in Srirangam zone of Trichy Corporation in Tamil Nadu was tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday night...

Expert team to review syllabus: Sengottaiyan

3 days ago

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A 16-member high-level expert team will review the possibilities of reducing a portion of syllabus for the current academic year, state school education minister K A Sengottaiyan said...

TN: Intra-district bus services likely from June 5

3 days ago

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Setting the stage for extension of the lockdown into June, the state government has decided to continue with the existing restrictions in Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur and Chengalpet districts due to the high case load. Curbs will be relaxed in other parts of the state with intra-district bus services likely to resume from June 5. A formal announcement is expected on Sunday...

TN reports sharpest rise in Covid-19 cases

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16-member team to review syllabus: Sengottaiyan

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SR to be operate 2 special trains via Trichy

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Puzhal Central Prison becomes Covid-19 hotspot

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Chennai tipplers set sail to get bottles

4 days ago

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Desperate measures are called for in times of crisis. With all Tasmac liquor outlets in Greater Chennai Police limits closed, several residents, particularly from the city's northern parts, are travelling by sea to areas in Tiruvallur district and bringing back 'liquid gold'...

Passenger ship service resumes at Chennai port

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Tamil Nadu’s Covid-19 tally reaches 20,246

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'Bathroom slippages': SHRC takes cognizance

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Anna Univ 5th among govt universities in India

5 days ago

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Anna University got the fifth rank in EducationWorld India Government Universities Rankings 2020-21. IISc Bangalore was ranked as the top university in the country among 150 reputed government universities...

Dispute with Nissan Motor: TN pays Rs 1.5k cr

5 days ago

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The state government has settled a long-pending dispute over tax incentives with Nissan Motor by paying nearly Rs 1,500 crore to the Japanese car giant’s Indian arm. In return, Nissan will withdraw international arbitration proceedings it has initiated against the government. According to sources, the Japanese automaker had claimed nearly Rs 5,000 crore in dues, interest and other damages. “We settled the dispute and made the payment, due to them for the period 2012-2017 in January this year much before the Covid crisis. It has come to light now since Nissan has filed for withdrawing the international arbitration proceedings,” state government officials said. The settlement is expected to boost Tamil Nadu’s image among international investors...

TN: Registration of property sees uptick in May

5 days ago

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Property registrations are recording a partial revival in the state, weeks after land transactions increased due to phased relaxation of lockdown that came into effect to contain the spread of coronavirus in March...